{"id":3280,"date":"2025-08-13T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:23:43","slug":"sunday-scraps-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/sunday-scraps-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0xCuBscJRVY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The anxiety of living makes us <em>want<\/em> to judge, be sure, have a stance, definitively decide. Having a fixed, rigid system of belief can be a great relief.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/jan\/06\/a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-by-george-saunders-review-rules-for-good-writing-and-more\">A Swim in a Pond in the Rain<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want a quiet week, don&#8217;t read the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandatory_Palestine\">Mandatory Palestine<\/a> \/ I loved this short 1970s documentary on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JqCDDRAy8hQ?feature=shared\">Itzhak Perlman<\/a> \/ Nokia 3310 inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babakganjeiworks.com\/shop\/old-time-phonespair-of-prints\">art<\/a> \/ I really like it when exhibitions give you <a href=\"https:\/\/thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/variations-resources\">a reading list<\/a> \/ a museum of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/aug\/09\/italy-museum-of-plastic-pollution-faded-items-beaches-ocean\">plastic waste<\/a> is a genius idea \/ Phin is hosting an event on the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/phinharper.squarespace.com\/shop\/p\/bored-of-biennales\">Biennales<\/a> \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vittlesmagazine.com\/p\/the-vittles-podcast-summer-special\">Vittles<\/a> summer special podcast was excellent \/ it&#8217;s a real shame when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/08\/06\/goldsmith-street-right-to-buy\">social housing schemes don&#8217;t stay under public ownership for very long<\/a> \/ I didn&#8217;t know my favourite gif was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LkpXoLyfru4\">advert for cheese<\/a> \/ excellent jewelled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathleen-ryan.com\/2020-bad-fruit\">rotting fruit<\/a> \/ I experienced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jul\/27\/gen-z-stare-its-got-nothing-on-the-gen-x-look-of-dread\">Gen Z stare<\/a> twice this week \/ I should probably read <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bowling_Alone\">Bowling Alone<\/a> at some stage.<\/p>\n<p>In social news, I wore a dress for my friend 50th birthday and that was nice. Seeing friends in the evenings and going to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charleston.org.uk\/\">Charleston House<\/a> in Lewes this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On job seeking front, a friend has shared an interesting advert for a Chair role which I&#8217;ll apply for and still mulling over a couple of applications with the expectation any recruitment process will take 6 months anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anxiety of living makes us want to judge, be sure, have a stance, definitively decide. Having a fixed, rigid system of belief can be a great relief. &#8211; A Swim in a Pond in the Rain If you want a quiet week, don&#8217;t read the history of Mandatory Palestine \/ I loved this short&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/sunday-scraps-95\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #95<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-QU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}